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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag has occurred near Nemuro in Japan


Earthquake location 42.9253S, 146.5305WA light earthquake with magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) was detected on Wednesday, 89 kilometers (55 miles) from Nemuro in Japan. The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 31.29 km (19 miles) below the earth’s surface. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Global time and date of event 15/12/15 / 2015-12-15 22:07:20 / December 15, 2015 @ 10:07 pm UTC/GMT. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us20004hff. Id of event: us20004hff. Exact location, longitude 146.5305° East, latitude 42.9253° North, depth = 31.29 km. The temblor was picked up at 08:07:20 / 8:07 am (local time epicenter).

Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was Nemuro (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 89 km (55 miles) from Nemuro (c. 31 200 pop).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days twenty-three earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 89 km ESE of Nemuro, Japan.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 146.5305° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 42.9253° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 31.29 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 89km ESE of Nemuro, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2015-12-15 22:07:20 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2015-12-15 23:39:56 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 600 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt 0 The total number of felt reports
CDI 1 The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.656 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.8 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 180 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us20004hff Id of event.
Event Code 20004hff An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us20004hff, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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